San Francisco-based professional photographer Travis Jensen calls street photography is his true passion. When on a commercial assignment, he tries to find opportunities to capture what he calls “personal use snaps”.

The image below, shot with a 16-35mm lens, is one of those moments.

In L.A. last month, he met a local photographer while roaming downtown. The two hit it off, walked the streets and...

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Though Greg Vorobiov now calls Los Angeles home, he enjoys traveling back to his native San Francisco whenever possible to make images. He captured this photo of a hang glider at Fort Funston in the city's southwestern corner.

He wrote: "It was late afternoon and the cold salty wind was gusting and hollering as a lone hang glider steadied himself for a launch.

Coffing’s professional photography is a reflection of her field notes from her evening walks around her Atwater Village neighborhood. The picture she made of this car with her iPhone is a glimpse into that notebook.

The photograph feels like an icon of a Los Angeles residential street, with its overgrown foliage, a spot of color...